Ak Raychaudhuri

Biography

Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri obtained BSc from MS University, Baroda followed by the MSc (Physics) from IIT Kanpur. He did his PhD (1980) from Cornell University working on universal low temperature thermal properties of glasses and amorphous solids under the supervision of Robert O Pohl. He did his postdoctoral research as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart after which he joined the Faculty of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in 1982 and worked there till 2004. In between, he was Director, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi (1997-2000). He joined the SN Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata in 2004 as Senior Professor, and became its Director in 2006.

Research Interest

Physics, Low Temperature Physics, Physics of Nanomaterials, Scanning Probe Microscopy